Ms. Oczkowski's Third Grade News

January 16, 2015

Ms. Oczkowski's Third Grade News

January 16, 2015

Happy New Year

Time sure does go by quickly. Our GreatAmerica reading logs were due today. I'll accept forms on Tues., Jan. 20th. Book It forms from Pizza Hut will be due on Feb.1st. Teachers will be meeting to collaborate times for our February parent teacher conferences. Please have your child return the form on Tuesday if you haven't already. They will be held on Thurs., Feb. 12th and 13th. You can always email me your preference day.

Reading

We are beginning to write book recommendations for our friends. A book about the life of Nelson Mandela was our first recommendation we wrote together.

Main idea, detail sentences, character traits are some of the skills being reviewed in our literacy groups. We watched a video, Our Friend Martin. It's a wonderful story about kids being transported back in time to when Martin Luther King, Jr. was leading peaceful marches. Actual video footage is shown throughout the movie. Afterwards, we had a discussion on how we can continue Martin's message of treating others with respect.

I am pleased at those students who are giving 100% effort in trying to meet their AR goal by Jan. 23rd. For this quarter, they need to meet total correct at 90% as well as their set points given on their "AR contract." All students who meet their goal will have lunch on me the following week:)

Math

We have been working on multiplication and division. I have been showing them story problems to see if they can tell me if they would use multiplication, division, subtraction or addition to solve it.

Please continue to practice multiples of 1,2,5, and 10 for our fact fluency test next week.

You may enjoy finding review sheets on Math-Aids.com

Reading

We are beginning to write book recommendations for our friends. A book about the life of Nelson Mandela was our first recommendation we wrote together.

Main idea, detail sentences, character traits are some of the skills being reviewed in our literacy groups. We watched a video, Our Friend Martin. It's a wonderful story about kids being transported back in time to when Martin Luther King, Jr. was leading peaceful marches. Actual video footage is shown throughout the movie. Afterwards, we had a discussion on how we can continue Martin's message of treating others with respect.

I am pleased at those students who are giving 100% effort in trying to meet their AR goal by Jan. 23rd. For this quarter, they need to meet total correct at 90% as well as their set points given on their "AR contract." All students who meet their goal will have lunch on me the following week:)

Math

We have been working on multiplication and division. I have been showing them story problems to see if they can tell me if they would use multiplication, division, subtraction or addition to solve it.

Please continue to practice multiples of 1,2,5, and 10 for our fact fluency test next week.